apricots made my bottom explode

i have an embarrassing confession and seeing as this is all a bit anonymous on here i feel like i can confess to you all

to put it bluntly i suffer from constipation. a friend of mine at xmas said to eat dried apricots. so i got a little tub of them from this health food place and ate the lot

well after about half an hour all hell was trying breaking loose in my bowels. i was in a really long and boring meeting that was dragging past 6pm, and all i could do to keep control was to cross my legs, tense my bottom cheeks and pray nothing forced its way out

when i got a 'comfort break' i dashed to the loo and something like hiroshima exploded down the u-bend, and my poor stomach was groaning all weekend (i just about made it home without pebbledashing my knickers) and thank the lord no-one else was in the next cubicle... i think

on the plus side, my motion (scattered as it was) was nice and dark - which i hear is a good thing

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